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Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:56:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: John Kylehttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10233
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:54:52 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10233Ms. Blair;
I am sure that a family’s life in the Navy was much like being at sea… smooth sailing one day, wind blown the next with much weight born by your Mother while Dad was either away at sea and/or separated by duty hours which are totally unlike a 9:00 to 5:00 job no matter where or what the assignment. I spent a few weeks at sea between my junior and senior years at high school, enjoyed the work experience as well as the money I earned in that experience. With the occurrence of the waterfront strike of September ’48…a BREAK FOR ME in the long run. My Mother’s illness was becoming acute and I would not have destroyed her hopes by failing to finish High School. She died within two years and three months
and I grew up in a hurry as two younger brothers were involved and grandparents were all well along in years. Mother passed on Christmas day and I have always been buoyed by the idea that for a Christian, death on that day is a mark of recognition in adherence to the faith.
You speak of the R.C.Church’s problem with sexual abuse. My greatest concern over the matter is that for those Priests who have remained faithful to vows, that it must be a matter of great difficulty. Yet the fact is they continue in service and adherence to their vows.
On that subject, it is interesting to note that early in year 2008, a business man of the Hebrew Faith was piqued by the amount of press coverage given to the abuse existent in one sect. The man commissioned a study and then had the courage to print the results which might easily have damaged his retail business. I was advised of all this by a daughter who had moved with her husband and daughters to Louisville Ky., which apparently was, or is not too distant from the man’s business located in another state on the northern side of the Ohio River. She provided me with a well circulated internet summary of the newspaper’s published article.
It began…:
Proud of being Catholic…. Excerpts of an article written by Sam Miller, prominent Jewish Businessman located in Cleveland who is not a Catholic.
Mr. Miller wrote and these few words are an excerpt from his article page which clearly accommodated his identity as a retail businessman.
Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today, in the United State, namely the Catholic Church?
Do you know the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students every day at the cost to your Church of 10 billion dollars and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars Your graduate go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%, all at a cost to you, To the rest of the Americans it’s free..
The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students.
The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people… not just Catholics…in the United States today.
But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this Country. They have blamed the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the institution of marriage.
Let me give you some figures that you Catholics should know and remember. For example, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed ADMITTED TO SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A PARISHIONER; 38% acknowledged other inappropriate sexual contact in a a study done by the United Methodist Church; 41.8% of clergy women reported unwanted sexual behavior; 17% of laywomen have been sexually harassed. Meanwhile, 1.7% of the Catholic clergy has been found guilty of pedophilia. 10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of pedophilia. This is not a Catholic problem.
A study of American priests showed that most are happy in the priesthood and find it even better than they had expected and that most, if given the choice, would choose to be priests again in face of all this obnoxious PR that the church has been receiving.
The Catholic Church is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been hurt by a small number of wayward priests that have probably been totally weeded by now.
Walk with your shoulders high and your head held higher. Be a proud member of the most important non-governmental agency in the United States. Then remember what Jeremiah said: “Stand by the roads, look and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, to find rest for your souls.” Be proud to speak up for your faith with pride and reverence; learn what your Church does for all other religions. Be proud that you are Catholic.
Mrs Blair, those words from a non-Catholic are re-assuring to me in the sense that there are many in this country who take comfort in the idea that there some who have the courage to speak up and express an underlying belief that a persecution will not occur in this country based on conflicting religious belief.
It was after my daughter moved to Louisville Ky. That I learned of the events occurring in that City some 15 years prior to the Civil war. In the City some 140 (+) Catholics were picked up on the streets or pulled from their homes and lynched. Investigators approached a list of suspects in that matter who when questioned replied. “I know nothing” with such repetitiveness as to brand the region as the base for ‘the know nothing party’. I do not recall reading or hearing that any were brought to justice. The lengthy history of violence involving African-American folks, over a long period of time, is well known and equally indefensible. On the whole, I do not think that any of us would willingly give up our personal protections under the Constitution in these United States.
Wrongs committed against any of us by indirection or otherwise will be most assuredly be rectified at a moment chosen by our Creator. It was providential that Al Smith lost his bid for the presidency in 1928. Recognizing the fact that 5,000 folks dressed in white garments and masked, in the fashion of the KKK marched down Market Street In San Francisco, it was fortunate that Al lost! Otherwise, Catholics might have been subjected to a hard time during the depression. I always thought it a bit humorous that the KKK parade occurred in the City of Saint Francis in a State which bears so many names taken from those identified as Saints by the RC Church or it’s rites, such ’Sacramento’ or ‘Los Angeles’. The US Navy even named submarine ‘Corpus Cristi’ or in English, ‘Body of Christ’, which I thought was contradictory to the purpose of that boat.
I would not trade my US Citizenship for that of any other Country in the world. Then too, I possess an Honorable Discharge from military service…… and at present age of 81 will soon enjoy a ‘free grave’ in a National Cemetery, not too far from Oakland the place of my birth, as a second generation US born citizens.
]]>By: Sherry Blairhttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10231
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:34:28 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10231I have been enjoying looking up all those new (to me) names – the Salesians, etc. I think I would have loved Sol Alinsky for his work on behalf of the disenfranchised. Also with John Bosco’s “Preventive System” calling education a matter of the heart. “..boys must not only be loved but know that they are loved.” By the way he apparently feard that some may go too far in their affection and sensuality.
And his mentor, Francis de Sales realization that God is Love fits my own view.

Thanks, John.

No, Qodrn, I wasn’t aware that the Army accessed the IRS records. However, I do believe that student records are confidential even to the Army.

]]>By: qodrnhttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10229
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:39:09 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10229I don’t know why you would bother “preventing” the US Army from getting personal information. You are aware the Army has access to this through the internal Revenue Service, right?
]]>By: Sherry Blairhttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10228
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:16:00 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10228Thank you all!

It was so interesting to hear your story, John. Knowing the stories of our lives help us to understand our differences. I have heard Michael’s story and also Kathi’s and they are very different but equally interesting. Sharing those stories in that way allows us to all expand our worldview and to become more empathetic.

I will tell you a little about my own story. I was born in Oakland in 1939 at the end of the great depression and just before WWII. Dad joined the Navy shortly after. I spent my childhood traveling from one place to another, leaving the old way behind and beginning a new one over and over.

My brother and I were expected to be like ambassadors representing the US Navy wherever we went. My mother taught us that wherever we lived, we were a part of the community and should leave it better than we found it. She believed we should choose our own religion and set out to educate us about a variety of churches (all Christian) Dad was not religious and encouraged us to tell the truth and think clearly. I was also influenced by my maternal grandmother was a seeker and studied eastern and new age religions too.

I am still learning and experiencing. I have taken an interest in many schools of thought and selected the best I saw from all of them. I am more interested in the real inner experiences and in learing. I prefer to think of people as individuals rather than as members of a religion. After all no two people are the same in any one religion. Even in the same family, the children experience life differently. My brother is happy in his fundamentalist church, for instance, and that is not for me. My reasons have to do with my real life experiences that he never experienced.

I think far too much is said about other people’s beliefs without any real understanding of the other’s story that led them to those beliefs. The ego’s competition to be right only increases fear, hatred and violence.

If I had my way, I would not allow personal attacks on other people or groups on this blog. Those who do so continue to make this a source of negativity for all who read it. That doesn’t mean I would not allow controversay. I think conversations are needed to find resolutions to conflict. But there are ways to do that that are non-violent and impersonal.

Further, you don’t have to be against the Catholic Church to be against the child abuse that was perpetrated there. When Catholics try to defend the Church in that respect, they offend everyone else. The Church needs to accept the consequences of its members’ bad behavior, learn and change. When they defend themselves, others fear they haven’t learned the lesson.

I too believe that churches should stay out of the schools. I think that is clear in our laws. If COR is a religious group, they should not be allowed in the schools. Nor should the schools be allowed to give out confidential information about individual students to them.

We worried about this in my neighborhood when the Salvation Army got involved at school. We also stood up against the district giving the names of our high school students to the USArmy recruiters.

However, I don’t think anyone has given me enough information to make that kind of a judgment about COR.

Even if there were things they did wrong or that were controversial, I don’t think what was said is reason enough to wipe them off the face of the earth. Maybe it was a wrong strategy or the results of some loose cannon within the organization.

Perhaps they appear to drift when seen from your point of vfiew. I will not attempt to adress that…. none of us are perfect as was seenj the night that the present board was sworfn nad before Ms.Bruinner barly had her hand on the Gavel, HEA Prwesidenbt was loudly delvering ‘instructions’ from a standing position at the rear of those assemnbledin Council Chambers.

The heavuy set vice president of HEA has on occasion, especially when cameras are rolling, turned into soimething, almost chameleonlike,other than a wellcomposed,thoughtful. model citizen.

I too have some reservations about the quality or quaklificwations of the present COR staff.None of us perfect and most of us correct those personal behaviors in the course of time and experience.

FRankly, I am in the procdess of picking over a few items of contention with COR leader Heredia! wish her luck… as I refuse to just ‘go away’

Frankly I think HEA needs a change of leadership which seems to have become a bit stale!

]]>By: teachermamahttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10217
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:53:03 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10217Well, I have heard them publicly misrepresent remarks that public officials have said privately. They also courted teachers in our school community years ago when trying to further their agenda (basically trying to form a charter school), but when it was suggested that they affect change through established channels (SSC, SBDM, PTA), they went ahead and threw all their energy toward reconstitution – an anti-teacher reform. There was all kinds of painful drama between COR, the parents and the teachers after that and to “repair” the relationship, a COR staffer contacted teachers and offered to meet one-on-one – but refused to meet with teachers as a group. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.
]]>By: John Kylehttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10213
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:43:25 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10213Blair;
Too bad that Mr. Moore is more certain aboutthe things or thoughts he is ‘against’ than the things he is FOR! !!

If you were an observer of the blog ‘goings on’ last August ( 2010 ) when Mr. Moore began contributing (?) it became obvious to most that he is upset with the R.C Church over the abuse of children by priests. Even went so far as to drag up Pope Benedict’s history as a teenager compulsorily involved with the Wehrmacht near the end of WWII. If he is anti-religious, his attitude seems directed solely to R.C. Church. He has however, in his defense, more recently avoided the subject until his unfortunate remark against COR.
COR Is an ACRONYM of ‘Congregations Organized for Renewal’ COR had it’s origins in the mind of Saul Alinsky the great ‘organizer’ whose ‘direct action’ approach involved ‘sit ins’ etc…. Not a Catholic, probably a Hebrew in faith or background, Alinsky was often described, without comment by him, as agnostic. His direct actions were not violent in the sense that he did not have a club in his hand or resort to violence in finding solutions in aid of ‘justice’ for those ‘living on the edge’ in chronic conditions, where social justice was lacking. His single greatest ‘tool’ was seen inb his ability to organize folks to take risks, involving potential violence which was sometimes evoked by lack of patience within police Departments, major businesses, and City Halls across the nation.
Initially, I was put off by such tactics, which in my personal experience, I thought it was based on false information, that had aroused inappropriate actions. In my own case, my employer assigned me to the task of initiating a response that satisfied the group that had deliberately caused an annoyance which interrupted business in a Branch Bank. A hundred people laying on the lobby floor will easily upset customers attempting to access their money! Despite the tactic I appreciated the goals soon achieved.
Banks do have a responsibility in attending and meeting the financial needs of an entire community and not just the needs of ‘fat cats’!
Sol Alinsky’s actions soon attracted the attention of the Jesuit order of priests in the Catholic Church. I had attended Jr. High school at a Salesian boarding school in Watsonville. Initially I saw it as ‘punishment’ for the misguided conduct at a cost of repeating the seventh grade. My widowed Mother was unaware of my incredible number of absences from school ! The eldest of three, I had asthma and could no longer live on Mac Arthur Blvd in Oakland, quite near the Altenheim within Oakland’s Dimond District. Mac Arthur Blvd was one of three major routes to Southern Alameda County. Two of those routes were cluttered with slow moving electric street cars and the problem affecting the home selected by Mother was that it was immediate to the bus stop she needed for transport to San Franccisco.
Without an operable auto, her job took her to San Francisco where she worked as secretary to a sales manager of a major plumbing supply company… the lady was exhausted, especially with the onset of cancer. I could not live in the really old dwelling with considerable substandard features. WWII autos all needed an engine ring job and exhaust pipe emissions were crippling.
I took up residence with maternal grandparents who had a semi-enclosed rear porch. The fresh air worked wonders and I soon found work as a news carrier, delivering papers from a bike along a 21 mile stretch of streets, inclement weather was used as an excuse for not attending school on a fairly regular basis. A younger brother and I were soon whisked away to Watsonville when, widowed paternal Grandmother sold her home to cut her expense
While also enabling tuition and boarding expense, which was very reasonable given the fact that the Salesians operated 140 acres of agricultural, grape, orchard and cattle operations. Students had assigned, light chores to aid the operation.
After completing 9th grade, a paternal uncle’s wife interceded and the two sponsored my enrollment at The Jesuit Prep School near Santa Clara University. The Jesuits are serious about being well educated and offering themselves to education. I spent three years, boarding on the Bellarmine campus. They were rewarding years in that I was deeply exposed to a student body which was derived from many levels of wealth, education and national origin. Their viewpoints were an education in and of itself.
I am married to a lady who, after earlier acceptance, was turned away from a life within a teaching order on Nuns as direct result of lapsing into a diabetic coma one month prior to graduating High School. Her strength of character sees her at my side after over 58 years of marriage. More interesting is the fact that her Mother’s only brother was a Jesuit priest and her Father’s nephew was also a Jesuit Priest. I never met the Uncle but was well acquainted with wife’s cousin, a brilliant man, who according to another, who had also joined the Jesuit order and was in the same classes at the novitiate. After his death cousin was eulogized as a man who began teaching, almost unconsciously. Even to the extent that he reminded an older priest who presided at the dinner table, that he, the older man had assigned after dinner tasks with both the instruction and response, in Latin, ‘you have just used a transitive verb without an object’! That from the mouth of a man who had just turned 17.5 years of age, in August 1939.
I relate all that for the single reason that having known them, I stand in awe of the Jesuits and for that reason I came to understand why it was that the Jesuits ‘picked up’ on the message that Sol Alinsky was ‘preaching’. They respected him to the point that Alinsky was invited to lecture at their nearby Colleges. Further, they associated with him in the creation of ‘Congregations organized for Renewal’ (COR)
I had the experience of being visited by a Jesuit at my home. He had been referred to me by Priests or staff members at St. Joachim’s Parish Church on Hesperian Blvd, opposite the Airport. His purpose in the visit was to recruit me into a leadership position at creation of a Haywrd chapter of COR.
I DECLINED THE REQUEST ON THE BASIS OF THE IDEA THAT SINCE I HAD NO FACILITY IN SPANISH. THAT I WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE. I REFUSED THE INVITATION WITH THE SUGGESTION THAT COR SEEK LEADERRSHIP THROUGH THE PASTOR OF THE PARISH LOCATED IN THE OLD DECOTO DISTRICT OF UNION CITY…. WHERE THE POLICE CHIEF HAD BEEN SHOT TO DEATH BY A SNIPER, THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW OF THE ASSEMBLY BUILDING. The Priest of that Parish, personally took on the role and succeeded so well that COR subsequently established a group or ‘chapter’ in Hayward. They seem to have achieved some limited success.
Let us be clear about COR, it is not a religious order seeking converts on a door to door basis. It is an alliance of Americans of various faiths in possession of varying intensity of effort at seeking justice as well as opportunity, for actions which serve the well being of our nation.
I mentioned earlier in this scribble, that my employer had be subjected to a ‘sit down’ by vocal participants who objected to conditions in a particular residential site on which the bank held a note and deed of trust which had been recorded as security for that note. That particular loan had been acquired by purchase from a mortgage lender in San Francisco. The upshot was that the underlying appraisal had not been performed by an appraiser associated with my employer.
I examined the structure in question. Not as bad as some, but hardly a ‘prime’ loan. The owner was a tough lady, reputed to be Afro-American, who was accused of being abusive by her tenants.
Frankly, I would not have been able to see that structure used as a dog kennel. I reported the facts as I saw them. Foreclosure proceedings were initiated the moment that the process was legally enabled.
Apparently, the members of the group used a tactic brought to the national scene by those in alliance with Sol Alinsky. I personally approve of such tactics and my employers of the moment suddenly had me representing the firm, together with other lenders in organizing “ Oakland Neighborhood Housing Services Corporation” which had the purpose of assuring access to loan money for dwellings in need of repair or refurbishment.
No one had to make a profession of Faith in anything other than the simple concept of freedom of opportunity! It is my simplistic belief that the problem with COR in Hayward is that it has lost much in the way of zeal….. Beyond that I have nothing else to say about COR. ( Congregations Organized for Renewal.)

If you were an observer of the blog ‘goings on’ last August ( 2010 ) when Mr. Moore began contributing (?) it became obvious to most that he is upset with the R.C Church over the abuse of children by priests. Even went so far as to drag up Pope Benedict’s history as a teenager compulsorily involved with the Wehrmacht near the end of WWII. If he is anti-religious, his attitude seems directed solely to R.C. Church. He has however, in his defense, more recently avoided the subject until his unfortunate remark against COR.
COR Is an ACRONYM of ‘Congregations Organized for Renewal’ COR had it’s origins in the mind of Saul Alinsky the great ‘organizer’ whose ‘direct action’ approach involved ‘sit ins’ etc…. Not a Catholic, probably a Hebrew in faith or background, Alinsky was often described, without comment by him, as agnostic. His direct actions were not violent in the sense that he did not have a club in his hand or resort to violence in finding solutions in aid of ‘justice’ for those ‘living on the edge’ in chronic conditions, where social justice was lacking. His single greatest ‘tool’ was seen inb his ability to organize folks to take risks, involving potential violence which was sometimes evoked by lack of patience within police Departments, major businesses, and City Halls across the nation.
Initially, I was put off by such tactics, which in my personal experience, I thought it was based on false information, that had aroused inappropriate actions. In my own case, my employer assigned me to the task of initiating a response that satisfied the group that had deliberately caused an annoyance which interrupted business in a Branch Bank. A hundred people laying on the lobby floor will easily upset customers attempting to access their money! Despite the tactic I appreciated the goals soon achieved.
Banks do have a responsibility in attending and meeting the financial needs of an entire community and not just the needs of ‘fat cats’!
Sol Alinsky’s actions soon attracted the attention of the Jesuit order of priests in the Catholic Church. I had attended Jr. High school at a Salesian boarding school in Watsonville. Initially I saw it as ‘punishment’ for the misguided conduct at a cost of repeating the seventh grade. My widowed Mother was unaware of my incredible number of absences from school ! The eldest of three, I had asthma and could no longer live on Mac Arthur Blvd in Oakland, quite near the Altenheim within Oakland’s Dimond District. Mac Arthur Blvd was one of three major routes to Southern Alameda County. Two of those routes were cluttered with slow moving electric street cars and the problem affecting the home selected by Mother was that it was immediate to the bus stop she needed for transport to San Franccisco.
Without an operable auto, her job took her to San Francisco where she worked as secretary to a sales manager of a major plumbing supply company… the lady was exhausted, especially with the onset of cancer. I could not live in the really old dwelling with considerable substandard features. WWII autos all needed an engine ring job and exhaust pipe emissions were crippling.
I took up residence with maternal grandparents who had a semi-enclosed rear porch. The fresh air worked wonders and I soon found work as a news carrier, delivering papers from a bike along a 21 mile stretch of streets, inclement weather was used as an excuse for not attending school on a fairly regular basis. A younger brother and I were soon whisked away to Watsonville when, widowed paternal Grandmother sold her home to cut her expense
While also enabling tuition and boarding expense, which was very reasonable given the fact that the Salesians operated 140 acres of agricultural, grape, orchard and cattle operations. Students had assigned, light chores to aid the operation.
After completing 9th grade, a paternal uncle’s wife interceded and the two sponsored my enrollment at The Jesuit Prep School near Santa Clara University. The Jesuits are serious about being well educated and offering themselves to education. I spent three years, boarding on the Bellarmine campus. They were rewarding years in that I was deeply exposed to a student body which was derived from many levels of wealth, education and national origin. Their viewpoints were an education in and of itself.
I am married to a lady who, after earlier acceptance, was turned away from a life within a teaching order on Nuns as direct result of lapsing into a diabetic coma one month prior to graduating High School. Her strength of character sees her at my side after over 58 years of marriage. More interesting is the fact that her Mother’s only brother was a Jesuit priest and her Father’s nephew was also a Jesuit Priest. I never met the Uncle but was well acquainted with wife’s cousin, a brilliant man, who according to another, who had also joined the Jesuit order and was in the same classes at the novitiate. After his death cousin was eulogized as a man who began teaching, almost unconsciously. Even to the extent that he reminded an older priest who presided at the dinner table, that he, the older man had assigned after dinner tasks with both the instruction and response, in Latin, ‘you have just used a transitive verb without an object’! That from the mouth of a man who had just turned 17.5 years of age, in August 1939.
I relate all that for the single reason that having known them, I stand in awe of the Jesuits and for that reason I came to understand why it was that the Jesuits ‘picked up’ on the message that Sol Alinsky was ‘preaching’. They respected him to the point that Alinsky was invited to lecture at their nearby Colleges. Further, they associated with him in the creation of ‘Congregations organized for Renewal’ (COR)
I had the experience of being visited by a Jesuit at my home. He had been referred to me by Priests or staff members at St. Joachim’s Parish Church on Hesperian Blvd, opposite the Airport. His purpose in the visit was to recruit me into a leadership position at creation of a Haywrd chapter of COR.
I DECLINED THE REQUEST ON THE BASIS OF THE IDEA THAT SINCE I HAD NO FACILITY IN SPANISH. THAT I WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE. I REFUSED THE INVITATION WITH THE SUGGESTION THAT COR SEEK LEADERRSHIP THROUGH THE PASTOR OF THE PARISH LOCATED IN THE OLD DECOTO DISTRICT OF UNION CITY…. WHERE THE POLICE CHIEF HAD BEEN SHOT TO DEATH BY A SNIPER, THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW OF THE ASSEMBLY BUILDING. The Priest of that Parish, personally took on the role and succeeded so well that COR subsequently established a group or ‘chapter’ in Hayward. They seem to have achieved some limited success.
Let us be clear about COR, it is not a religious order seeking converts on a door to door basis. It is an alliance of Americans of various faiths in possession of varying intensity of effort at seeking justice as well as opportunity, for actions which serve the well being of our nation.
I mentioned earlier in this scribble, that my employer had be subjected to a ‘sit down’ by vocal participants who objected to conditions in a particular residential site on which the bank held a note and deed of trust which had been recorded as security for that note. That particular loan had been acquired by purchase from a mortgage lender in San Francisco. The upshot was that the underlying appraisal had not been performed by an appraiser associated with my employer.
I examined the structure in question. Not as bad as some, but hardly a ‘prime’ loan. The owner was a tough lady, reputed to be Afro-American, who was accused of being abusive by her tenants.
Frankly, I would not have been able to see that structure used as a dog kennel. I reported the facts as I saw them. Foreclosure proceedings were initiated the moment that the process was legally enabled.
Apparently, the members of the group used a tactic brought to the national scene by those in alliance with Sol Alinsky. I personally approve of such tactics and my employers of the moment suddenly had me representing the firm, together with other lenders in organizing “ Oakland Neighborhood Housing Services Corporation” which had the purpose of assuring access to loan money for dwellings in need of repair or refurbishment.
No one had to make a profession of Faith in anything other than the simple concept of freedom of opportunity! It is my simplistic belief that the problem with COR in Hayward is that it has lost much in the way of zeal….. Beyond that I have nothing else to say about COR. ( Congregations Organized for Renewal.)

In Charity, nothing else to say about Moore either!

]]>By: Michael Moorehttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10211
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:55:02 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10211Sherry, I am familiar with the Cherryland COR work and operations. My issues are with the churches that supply the folks who work in the community. While on the surface the proselytizing is not present, the underlying political agenda is not to my taste. There are good works achieved, particularly in the black community, less so amongst other groups of color.

My issue is that COR and other Faith Based groups do not belong in public schools. I believe that these organizations make their inroads in to the community and then recruit new members for their churches. The underlying ideology is the sneaky part.

The surface work of COR is very good. The underlying work is not so good.

]]>By: Sherry Blairhttp://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2011/08/26/this-weeks-husd-meeting-tech-status-achievement-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-10210
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:38:20 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=3231#comment-10210Michael and Teacherama,
When COR came to my attention yesterday, I remembered this conversation. Would you mind elaborating on what you know about them? How do you know they are a fundamentalist group? What do you mean by sneaky?

Their website looks like they are simply community organizers who came from the churches. Since the South Hayward Collaborative came out of the South Hayward Parish and does a lot of good in the community without proselytizing, I am wondering what the difference is.